For most of my career, I’ve been on the other side of the table — the one trying to build something new out of natural fibers. I started as an architecture student fascinated by materials: how buildings feel, how they breathe, and how they connect to the land they stand on. That curiosity led me to co-found Hempitecture , where I’ve spent the better part of a decade scaling natural fiber insulation from an idea to a nationally distributed building product. Along the way, I le